Session+1+ISA+14

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Monday, July 14, 2014: 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM, Yokohama, Booth 65
Format: Oral Is this an invited session?: N Language: English Research Committee: RC10 Participation, Organizational Democracy and Self-Management (host committee) Session Organizer and chair Isabel DA COSTA CNRS IDHE-ENS de Cachan France **Email:** isabel.da-costa@ens-cachan.fr -- Will not be published Session Organizer Gyoergy SZELL **Prof. em. Dr.:** University of Osnabrueck Social Sciences Osnabrueck, 49069 Germany **Phone Number:** +49-5443-8959 **Fax Number:** +49´541-9694600 **Email:** gszell@uos.de -- Will not be published

Abstract id# 32353 Social Innovation: Driving Force Of Social Change
 * Juergen HOWALDT**, Social Research Center Dortmund, Duisburg, Germany

Abstract Text: The importance of social innovation in successfully addressing social, economic, political and environmental challenges of the 21st century as e.g. poverty and inequality is recognised not only within the Europe 2020 strategy but also on a global scale. However, despite this growing awareness of the significance of social innovation, there is still no sustained and systematic analysis of social innovation, its theories, characteristics and impacts. Since Schumpeter, the concept of innovation has focused predominantly on economic and technical developments, whereas social sciences were particularly interested in the corresponding social processes and effects. This may explain why social sciences, to this day, have been conducting empirical work on social innovations quite comprehensively, but without labeling them as such and, with few exceptions, without a concept of social innovation informed by social theory. In light of the increasing importance of social innovation the paper looks at the theoretical concepts, areas of empirical research and observable trends in the field of social innovation on a global scale. It gives an overview of the current situation and the perspectives of socio-scientific innovation research that have greatly contributed to the development and spread of an enlightened socio-scientific understanding of innovation. It will present the objectives and the concept of the global research project SI-DRIVE (7. Framework programme of the European Commission) which intends to extend knowledge about social innovation (SI). Facilitating empowerment within innovation processes driving social change can and shall be a main result of social innovations. Thus, social innovations need to mobilise citizens to take an active part in innovation processes and thereby enhance society’s generic innovative capacity. This requires new models of governance in favour of self-organisation and political participation, allowing sometimes unexpected results through the involvement of stakeholders.

Abstract id# 36499 More Decent Work: Radical Participation In Organizational Life
 * Catherine CASEY**, School of Management, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom

Abstract Text: **Abstract** The challenges facing workers in much of the world include new forms of uncertainty, heightened competitiveness, and spectres of austerity. These global challenges stimulate new analytical approaches, re-theorizations, and a search for innovative socio-cultural visions, and practices, for work and workers. The International Labour Organization’s (ILO) promotion since the turn of the 20thcentury of a core agenda of “Decent Work” gives international voice to aspirations for just economies and fair standards of work for all workers. Its pursuit of “decent and productive work, in conditions of freedom, equity, security and human dignity” have enduring relevance to virtually all dimensions of human productive endeavour and in diverse economic and national contexts. Yet advances toward the accomplishment of decent work continue to be slow, erratic and, moreover, frequently coercively opposed. Amid readily visible economic concerns there arise further questions in regard to quality of work life and employment relations. Research reports deterioration of cultural qualities – of non-wage aspects – of work in many sectors including professional occupations in developed countries. In response, many call for a renewal of business and organizational ethics and a revitalization of employee participation in organizational life and in substantive decision-making. This paper particularly adds to discussions of substantive worker participation and organizational democracy. Crucially, it proposes that deep obstructions to the development of decent work and substantive, collaborative participation may lie in more than economic injustice and material inequalities. Drawing on Aristotelian, phenomenological and feminist philosophies it sketches a radical, //extra//-materialist, inter-subjective conception of quality of work and participation. That conception poses a substantive challenge to policy development and responsibilities for the qualitative organization and practices of work and workplace life.
 * More Decent Work: Radical Participation in Organizational Life**

Abstract id# 37539 Decent Work and Social Justice for Informal Sector Workforce in South Asia
 * Dr.Waman SALVE**, Economics, Shri.Venkatesh College Ichalkaranji. affiliated to Shivaji University,Kolhapur., Ichalkaranji., India

Abstract Text: The increased economic integration during the last decades of the twentieth century coincided with rising income inequality in some countries and increasing unemployment among the low skilled mainly on European continent. Community based schemes are springing up everywhere in the developing world, most frequently in Africa and parts of Asia. The International labour Organization unanimously adopted the ILO Declaration of social Justice for a fair Globalization on 10th June 2008. The declaration expresses the universally of the Decent work Agenda. All members of the organization must pursue policies based on the strategic objectives, employment, social protection ,social dialogue, and rights at work. This paper examines the present position of the informal sector workers in South Asia. The study is based on information collected through secondary data. At present, Multinational Corporations have entered in the global market; therefore, the nature of capitalist production has been changing. It is effect of weakening social dialogue institutions in developed and developing countries. In the era of globalization, right to life and livelihood has become the central issue not only for organized sector workers but unorganized workers also. South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) is an economic and political organization of South Asian countries, which includes India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nepal, Maldives, Bhutan. Informal workers include all workers in the informal sector as well as in the formal sector performing informal jobs. Labour laws in the countries of the region are not universally applied and excluded several groups of workers or groups of establishments from their scope. It is ge nerally the formal or organized sector that is covered by labour laws. As a result many labour laws apply only to a small proportion of the workforce. There is a need to implement the ILO Declaration of social justice for a fair globalization.

Abstract id# 49985 Demokratia in Everyday Lifeworld
 * Feng ZHAO**, Dept. of Sociology, Sociology Institute, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China

Abstract Text: In this article, the author argues that there is a tendency to realize a high degree of demokratia in Western everyday lifeworld. Depending on one year ethnographic fieldwork in a Dutch village, the author uses the method of authethnography in order to provides a frame to observe the tendency. The article is divided into three parts. In the first part, the author explains that Everyday lifeworld is the horizon of social life, in which human being as ordinary practicer lives its own meaningful life and realizes its own desires, wishes and hopes with emotions. The author identifies three principles, equality, togetherness and openness, as the principles of “Demokratia”. In the second part, the observing frame of the phenomena theorized as demokratia in everyday lifeworld will be provided. The frame includes the gestures in daily interaction, the dialogue in daily lifeworld, and the form of collective action in daily lifeworld. In the last part, the author argues that the nature of “Demokratia in everyday lifeworld” is the habitus of practical reason. Playing together could be the possibility of “Demokratia in everyday lifeworld” in the future. To disclose the ruling relationship in everyday lifeworld should be one of the main sociological issues.

Abstract id# 52218 Paper withdrawn - transferred from session 8 Industrial Democracy in East Asian Society Social Economy Wednesday, July 16, 2014: 08:30 AM - 10:20 AM, Yokohama, Booth 65

Japanese Challenges Towards the Sustainable Society -- the Recovering Process from the Earthquake and Tsunami, and Establishing New Industrial Relations -- Abstract Text: After the serious earthquakes and tsunami in 2011, Japanese society, mostly in Tohoku area, had been damaged horribly and the accidents of Fukushima nuclear power plant are still on-going. Japanese central government had established “Reconstruction Agency ([])” for reacting to them. The task is “leading and managing the reconstruction process”, and the role is “to accelerate structural reconstruction and revitalization in the affected areas, by supporting implementation of government policies and managing coordination of reconstruction strategy and initiatives between various branches of government at a national level and with local municipalities”. However, the reconstruction process is not sufficient for the local communities. Following this situation, at a municipality and a community level, we could consider two distinctive changes as hints for new Japanese working features. This presentation tries to examine whether these changes will shed their skin and become new industrial relations or conditions. The first case would be an excellent collaboration between fishermen and NPOs in Iwate prefecture. Traditionally, the cleavage between fishermen and leisure divers was deep, because of their miscommunication. Currently, a NPO is proposing a cooperation aiming at recovering the sea both for fishery and diving. Through the collaborative works, fishermen have gradually presented their positive attitudes to divers and both of them have been able to understand each philosophy of work. The second case would be a citizens’ participation toward local administrations. For the aim at reconstructing a community, most of all municipalities are requesting citizens’ participation to set their future plan. In this case, the working style of municipality’s staff had changed to deliberative and negotiating process. Under this pressure, the staffs of municipality office have been forced to think how they can work with citizens and how they can realize the policies through deliberations. Abstract id# 31704 Paper witdrawn Does New Governance Surpass New Public Management In Sociability, Counteracting Social Inequality and Exclusion?:
 * Shuji YAMADA**, Bunkyo University, Japan
 * Arvydas GUOGIS**, Public Administration, Mykolas Romeris university, Vilnius, Lithuania

Abstract Text: New Governance, sometimes referred to as New Public Service, is newly becoming a model for public administration in the twenty-first century. It is also an important subject for discussion in sociology and other social sciences because of its impact to social presumptions and consequences and to counteracting negative of them. Some researchers suggest that this constitutes a paradigmatic turning point for public administration theory and practice. Two different opinions exist about the New Governance: one group of researchers (**Masiulis K.** 2008, **Masiulis K**.2009) thinks that it should supplement New Public Management (NPM), while the other group (**Denhardt J., Denhardt R**. 2007, **Guogis** **A.** 2009)suggests that New Governance is a separate and independent management model that opposes New Public Management by its social values, transparency, openness and democracy. Is there any evidence concerning this issue? And is it possible to state that New Governance model surpasses New Public Management in its sociability concern, counteracting social exclusion and inequality?

Abstract id# 33903 Paper withdrawn Malaria Control and Sustainable Malaria Education:Lessons from an International Collaboration and Community Empowerment on Malaria Control Program Between Japan and Lombok Indonesia
 * Hisayoshi MITSUDA**, Dept. of Sociology and Public Policy, Bukkyo University, Kyoto, Japan

Abstract Text: Malaria is a significant public health problem and has greatly impaired socioeconomic development in developing countries. Despite many years of continuous efforts such as Roll Back Malaria Program (WHO, 1998), malaria remains one of the major causes of morbidity and mortality affecting tropical third-world. In 2005, there was a severe outbreak of malaria in Lombok, Indonesia which was responsible for 1443 clinical cases and 14 deaths in the district. This sociological/epidemiological study of malaria aims to examine the co-relationship between the malaria outbreak and socioeconomic human poverty inherent in infected communities in Lombok. For over a decade year-period, our international joint research team made up of Bukkyo and Mataram Universities has been committed to the communities to fight the threat of malaria through community empowerment creating a school based intervention method. The team has developed and donated over a 80,000 units of malaria diagnostic kit, built up the institution for its local production and visited over 100 villages with trained local researchers to conduct an interview-guided survey to elucidate the relationship between the malaria outbreak and the incidences of socioeconomic poverty, lack of education, and disadvantaged position of mothers and children in the communities. The limitation of tackling the outbreak only by medical interventions led to strong demand for a new holistic approach with more impact on the social aspects. To raise the malaria awareness among the community members, 66 Malaria Village Workers were deployed and interviews and blood tests to 2,000 households were held. Zero outbreaks have been found since 2009, with the raising of malaria awareness, distribution of simplified diagnostic kits, and introducing the school based intervention in the communities. In conclusion, I will discuss the capability of community empowerment and our school based intervention method to fight against malaria as a political implication.

Abstract id# 49402 Paper withdrawn Equality,Inequality and Participation - Notes from Simmel to to Berger and Francis
 * Helmut LOISKANDL**, Tokiwa University, Mito, Japan, Japan

Abstract Text: The postulate of equality, brotherhood and freedom,which motivated not only one nation to march toward this goal, seems to have lost some of its lustre in our conference-formulation that "the crucial challenge of the 21st century is the eventual elimination of the processes of structural inequality".While the modern nation may have brought changes to some forms of inequality, the principle of inequality is not only still at work, but even celebrated in many forms - up to the Olympic Games.The proposed debate to find shared ground for an "ethical crusade" should, however go further back than the literature quoted.This paper will therefore look at some of Simmel's contributions, especially his undertaking to bring Schopenhauer's and Nietzsche's perspective of the world as imagination and will into the discussion of sociology.As cultural structures are thus imaginations turned into real constraints ( among other things ), social inclusions and exclusions have to be seen in the framework of participation as well. Berger's considerations on the implications of the social construction of reality, Bleicher' introduction of an hermeneutical sociology and Francis' concern with interethnic and innerethnic relations could provide stepping-stones in this discussion .For example, to point to "inequality in the recognition of ethnic differences " as something which has to be replaced by tolerance could easily just be turned into a fight of definitions, as indeed different legal definitions of the modern nation seem to be the cause of clashing expectations in participation.